A long-time daily reader of the News Dissector, I’m usually entertained, always enlightened, occasionally REALLY impressed; I’m writing today because your recent “The Economic Debate Has Yet top Target Real Issues” falls into the latter-most category, and stands at the most succinct summary of the “crisis-NOT-condition” and most pointedly damning indictment of the two-party platers I’ve seen yet–I’d suggest including a link to in each Dissector from now through November, and getting it cross-posted to a many sites as possible.

This line was especially good: “So far this sounds like just about every presidential race of the last 30 years, featuring the classic Democrat-Republican debate with the former posturing as populists and the latter claiming to stand for individual freedom.” Exactly. The problems we face are genuinely radical, a quantum leap from the quandaries of the post war world; the solutions, I’m afraid, need be equally radical. On the international financial front as well as in so many other areas. O brave new world….

The debates and speechmaking and advocacy of policy band-aids to date has left me in tears. “The Nation” recently asked, “who is talking about…” and listed a few key items wholly missing from the campaign speechifying. Well … I went to see Ralph Nader speak a week ago herein Boston, and whaddya know–he has a habit of addressing all of those unpleasant issues the others avoid, and head-on. I’m hoping the DIssector will treat him in a more than offhand manner during the campaign season–one doesn’t have to endorse his candidacy in any way in linking to his level-headed critiques of the duopoly and HIS insistence of confronting “the real issues” (his Boston talk is covered, with some video, at my own site at http://www.nosuppertonight.com; he just did a great interview with Amy Goodman at Democracy now; I see him picked up on Counterpunch regularly…).

A third-party run is quite obviously no antidote, but Nader remains, willy nilly, one of the most powerful tribunes for those of us disgusted with the politico-media-corporate power structure, and his (always sound, always pragmatic) broadsides during campaign season need as much attention as we can provide (hope I’m not starting to sound like one of the Ron Paul spammers–this is a one-off).

In the meantime, will do what I can to get that article of yours to into as many hands as I can. Excellent work on a most dismal topic. Keep it up, Danny–
Mike

Just to let you know about my review of George Soros book A New Paradigm for financial markets. You can find it at
http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/SorosParadigm.html

Gerry Gold
author
A House of Cards, from fantasy finance to global crash
http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/HouseOfCards.html